Chemist Chaim Weizman helped formulate Israel

1:49 AM,
Nov. 27, 2013

Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizman in 1921.

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In 1921, Chaim Weizman, president of the British Zionist Federation wrote:

"A state cannot be created by decree, but by the forces of a people and in the course of generations. Even if all the governments of the world gave us a country, it would only be a gift of words. But if the Jewish people will go build Palestine, the Jewish State will become a reality - a fact."

Weizman's words proved prophetic, and 28 years later he was elected the first president of Israel. ...